Includes update to version 9 of the Australian Curriculum in addition to a version for 8.4. ✓ Editable Unit Planner ✓ Grading Guide ✓ Editable PowerPoint ✓ Worksheets ✓ Success Criteria/Learning Intentions
In this Year 3 unit, students explore their communities including its features, rules and history, addressing aspects of the HASS Australian Curriculum.
✩ It is a 9-lesson unit (designed to be taught over a term) that contains all lesson resources including worksheets and posters.
✩ This HASS unit also contains an editable PowerPoint presentation that can be displayed during each lesson. It includes the learning intentions/success criteria, key discussion points, worksheets and display resources. This makes teaching every lesson even easier if your classroom has a T.V or Smartboard.
✩ The editable planner includes relevant Australian Curriculum links.
✩ The lessons are kept simple and succinct, five to six steps each, to help you save time. The clear instructions highlight the key points, allowing you to focus on the students and make the most of the learning opportunities.
✩ Mrs Amy123 is known for its fun and engaging lessons that involve a wide range of cooperative learning strategies. This means that some lessons will not feature worksheets, though many will.
✩ This unit also includes a grading guide that shows what each grade (A-E) would look like based on two activities from the unit. This document is also linked to the Achievement Standard for Year 3 HASS.
♦ Year 3 Planner (7 pages)
♦ Lesson resources & worksheets (31 pages)
♦ Editable PowerPoint Presentation (100+ pages)
IMPORTANT: As this unit is based on your own local community it requires you to prepare some resources for the lessons with specific local information. Some worksheets and resources have been provided.
Version 9 Outcomes covered:
Questioning and research: Develop questions to guide investigations about people, events, places and issues (AC9HS3S01)
Locate, collect and record information and data from a range of sources, including annotated timelines and maps (AC9HS3S02)
Interpreting, analysing and evaluating: Interpret information and data displayed in different formats (AC9HS3S03)
Analyse information and data, and identify perspectives (AC9HS3S04)
Concluding and decision-making: Draw conclusions based on analysis of information (AC9HS3S05)
Propose actions or responses to issues or challenges that consider possible effects of actions (AC9HS3S06)
Communicating: Present descriptions and explanations, using ideas from sources and relevant subject-specific terms (AC9HS3S07)
Version 8.4 Outcomes covered:
History: How the community has changed and remained the same over time and the role that people of diverse backgrounds have played in the development and character of the local community (ACHASSK063)
Geography: The similarities and differences between places in terms of their type of settlement, demographic characteristics and the lives of the people who live there, and people’s perceptions of these places (ACHASS069)
Civics and Citizenship: The importance of making decisions democratically (ACHASSK070)
Who makes rules, why rules are important and the consequences of rules not being followed (ACHASSK071)
Why people participate within communities and how students can actively participate and contribute (ACHASSK072)
Inquiry Skills: ACHASSI052, ACHASSI053, ACHASSI054 ACHASSI055, ACHASSI057, ACHASSI058, ACHASSI059 and ACHASSI061
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